The word "version" is more often than not used as a poncy excuse for learning a tune wrong. What's wrong with the word wrong anyway? If more people were able to hold their hands up and say, "yes, I think I have the tune wrong, how should it go?" rather than the pretence of "my version goes like this", then all the music would be better.[Quote]
I wondered what peoples views were?
my opinion is that different versions of tunes are a result of the oral process, and help to make traditional music interesting,I also think there is no such thing as wrong version of a tune,unless it is a modern composition,and the composer is present and insists he wants the tune played how he wrote it,and then its more A question of not right or wrong but respect and courtesy to the composer.